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4 Molecular Dynamics and Free Energy Calculations 79(a) Average number of hydrogenbonds made by thesidecha<strong>in</strong> of each residuewith backbone atoms.(b) Average number of hydrogenbonds made by thesidecha<strong>in</strong> of each residuewith other sidecha<strong>in</strong>s.3.0 1 n2.01.0(c) Average number of hydrogenbonds made by thesidecha<strong>in</strong> of each residue0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 N with water molecules.(c)Figure 4-11. The average number of hydrogen bonds formed by <strong>in</strong>dividual residues along thesequence dur<strong>in</strong>g the 250 ps <strong>molecular</strong> dynamics simulation of barnase <strong>in</strong> water.In each case the average number of the correspond<strong>in</strong>g hydrogen bonds is computed by summ<strong>in</strong>gthe average number of hydrogen bonds, def<strong>in</strong>ed as <strong>in</strong> legend of Figure 4-10, made by alldonor and acceptor groups of the sidecha<strong>in</strong> and divid<strong>in</strong>g it by the number of donors and acceptors<strong>in</strong> the sidecha<strong>in</strong>.

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